When was the last time your awesome mother baked you a delicious vegan plum pie? I bet she’s not as awesome as my mother, she made one a couple of days ago! It was in one of those weekly magazines with recipes, crossword puzzles, true stories from people’s lives and random jibberish. She veganized it (which was really easy) and then got baking. It was totally fab!

There’s also been a lot of bad things happening lately, I haven’t slept much and I’m beginning to feel autumn coming (in terms of how I feel mentally) so things aren’t awesome right now. That’s why there’s been such a lack of updates. Hopefully I’ll get some much needed sleep soon and wake up feeling tip-top. Tonight there’s dinner at a friends house though, so yay!

Almond plum pie:

• Pie crust
• 4 dl (1 and 2/3 cups) flour
• 3 tbsp sugar
• 150 gr (5 1/3 oz) vegan margarine
• 2 tbsp cold water

• Filling
• 700 gr (1,5 lbs) ripe plums
• ½ dl (3,5 tbsp) sugar
• 1 tbsp flour
• 1 tsp ground cardamom
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 dl (1/3 cup + 1tbsp) finely chopped almonds
• 2 tbsp vegan margarine

• Glaze
• ½ dl (3,5 tbsp) apricot marmalade
• 1 tbsp water

Pie crust: In a food processor, blend the flour, sugar and margarine together until it looks like a coarse meal. Add in the water and mix until it forms a ball of dough. Roll out to a big circle, about 30 cm across. Put in a springform pan, about 22 cm across, don’t bother with smoothing out the dough around the edges, it looks much more rustic if you don’t. Put in the fridge for about 30 mins to let it cool. Turn the oven on to 200C.

Cut the plums in half and deseed them. Put them in the piecrust.

Mix all the dry ingredients for the filling and sprinkle over the plums, turn them around a little bit so that the mixture is evenly spread over the fruit. Cube the margarine and put on top of fruit.

The ends of the dough (you should have some extra sticking out over the pan)  you now fold over the fruit filling. It won’t cover the pie completely and it’s not supposed to. Put in the oven and leave for about 40 minutes.

Meanwhile, mix the water and the apricot marmalade together in a pot and bring to a boil. The marmalade should melt. When the plum pie is ready and comes out of the oven use a pastry brush and brush the pie generously with your marmaldae mix.

Tastes LOVELY with some vanilla sauce or some soy ice cream.